134 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret .to hear of the death, on March 26th, of W.S. Kimball, Esq., 
of Rochester, New York, U.S.A., in his fifty-eighth year, from abscess on 
the brain. He was a most enthusiastic Orchidist, and possessed a splendid 
collection, under the care of Mr. George Savage, one of the finest in the 
States, his collection of Cypripediums being particularly complete, and the 
quantity of C. insigne enormous, as pointed out at page g8. The houses 
were thrown open to the public daily from nine to four o’clock, an act of 
generosity of which thousands of people availed themselves. _ 
Three days later Mr. Ignatz Férsterman died at his residence, Newtown, 
New York, where for the last six years he had carried on the business of a 
nurseryman and Orchid grower. He was born at Coblenz, Prussia, in 1854, 
and after serving in various horticultural establishments on the Continent, 
entered in 1880 into an engagement with Messrs. F. Sander and Co. to 
collect Orchids. He started for India in the following year, and the tour 
lasted five years, during which he collected many novelties, including 
Cypripedium Sanderianum, Ceelogyne Foerstermanni, C. Sanderiana, and 
others. His greatest achievement, probably, was the re-discovery of 
Cypripedium Spicerianum, an adventurous journey, in which one of his 
porters was killed by a tiger. He visited Burma, the Malayan Archipelago, 
Java, and the Philippines, and made a collection of some sixty species 
which he supposed new, and which are now buried in the Reichenbachian 
Herbarium at Vienna. On returning home he went to the United States to 
represent Messrs. Sander, but soon started business on his own account. 
His constitution was undermined during his adventurous journeys, and to 
the end remained indifferent. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM APTERUM. 
The identity of this Odontoglossum, which was described as long ago as 
1824 (La Llav. Nov. Veg. Descr., Orch. Opusc., p. 35), seems to have been 
quite lost, and it has been suggested that it is none other than the pretty 
little O. Rossii, one of the most generally distributed of the Mexican 
species. On looking up the original description, however, I find that this 
is impossible. It is said to be much like O. Cervantesii, but the pseudo- 
bulbs ancipitous, two inches or more long, and two or three-leaved. The 
flowers are white, with some roundish spots near the base of the segments, 
and the column without wings. These are precisely the characters of O. 
nebulosum, Lindl., which is evidently neither more nor less than the long- 
lost plant. It is satisfactory thus to be able to clear up its identity. 
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